Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Gallup poll puts Obama on top

|
|
 
  
Published: May 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM

WASHINGTON, May 11 (UPI) -- Voters prefer Sen. Barack Obama to Sen. Hillary Clinton as U.S. president, but Clinton fairs better against the presumptive Republican rival, a poll indicates.

A Gallup poll released Saturday has Obama, D-Ill., moving 5 points ahead of rival Clinton, D-N.Y., in public opinion.

Clinton, however, has a 48 percent lead compared to Republican Sen. John McCain's 44 percent while Obama has only a 1 point margin over the presumptive Republican nominee, Gallup reported.

The poll conducted Wednesday through Friday was Gallup's first since the Tuesday primaries that saw Clinton winning in Indiana and Obama taking North Carolina.

The survey of 1,270 Democratic-leaning voters had a 3-point margin of error, while the general election survey of 4,359 registered voters had a maximum margin of error of 2 percentage points.

Topics: Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton
© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
The Tibetan Moniam Festival in China Super Bowl XLVI ticker tape victory parade The making of the Oscars
The Chicago Auto Show The Most Desirable Women of 2012 Tu Bishvat Migron settlement
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 25
Meryl Streep and Colin Firth attend the "BAFTA" ceremony in London
View Caption
fark
74-year-old man conducting survey on penis size unfortunately chooses two undercover cops as subjects...
This is the busiest week of the year for: (a) Hallmark stores. (b) Flower shops. (c) Private investigators...
At 4:00 PM, hundreds of Philadelphians (including the mayor) will attempt to break the Guinness...
China: All the loans we took out to grown our economy at 10% a year are going bad. We are just going...
Regular Facebook updates are not recommended after you flee the country on drug charges
Today's Fark-ready headline: "Lessons of a very sexy pirate costume"